Henry mullen



(No Model.)

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WHIP.

N0. 444,250. Patented Jan. 6, 1891.

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UNITED STATES P ENT OFFICE.

HENRY MULLEN, VVESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN WHIP COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,250, dated January 6, 1891. Application filed May 31,1890. Serial No. 353,760. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MULLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in IVhips, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a whip by the novel shaping and arrangement and combination of parts, certain of which are most common and inexpensive, whereby at a minimum cost a whip may be produced which is of unusual durability, and which has in an unusual extent the desirable qualities of one made largely of whalebone, and one in which there is present a very satisfactory degree of stiffness coupled with capabilities for bringing, in the use of the whip, the deflected portion thereof back to the normal line.

The invention particularly relates to the whipcore, and said core embodies rattan and strips of whalebone in peculiar combination, all substantially as will hereinafter more full y appear, and be set forth in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a viewalong the length of a whip with some of the outer portions removed, and showing a construction which is in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section of the whip.

In the drawings, a represents the rattan center, andb the side-inclosing strips of whalebone therefor. The rattan center extends to the base of the tip, and there has spliced thereto a tip (1, formed of a solid tapered piece of whalebone, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and in this construction the said side-inclosing strips 1) of whalebone are preferably'extended to overlie said splice, as particularly indicated in Fig. 2.

In making up the core the rattan center is formed square in cross-section and tapered slightly, and the strips of whalebone are of a suitable form to cover the flat sides of said center, and are cemented thereto to form as one therewith a solid core. The center, formed substantially as described, is then stocked up with the sidings and plaited or otherwise externally finished in the usual or any approved manner.

The whip-core, formed of the combination of rattan and whalebon e, has all the necessary body, solidity, and elasticity, even though the rattan forms the major part of said core, while the whalebone, applied in the manner particularly described on the squared center. imparts an unusual degree of stiffness and retractiveness, for on the deflection of the whip .in any direction, while certain of the whalebone strips 1) are sprung in planes across their flat sides and against the least resistance of the so-detlected strips, other and relatively angularly disposed portions of the strips are bent in planes across the edges thereof and against their greatest resistance.

I am aware that whalebone and rattan have heretofore been extensively used in the construction of whips, and therefore I do not claim the embodiment of either of such materials in a whip, nor the combination of said materials, broadly, therein; butI claim such a particular novel disposition or relative combination of flat strips of whalebone with a squared and flat-sided rattan center proper,

having a solid whalebone tip spliced thereon,

as conduces to the production at a greatly reduced cost of a very stiff, retractive, and superior whip-that is to say,

I claim as my invention A whip consisting of a core formed of a tapered and transversely square center, the major portion of the length of which consists of rattan, and having a solid square whalebone tip spliced thereon, thin strips of whalebone overlying and cemented to the Hat sides of said rattan center and also extended to overlie and be cemented to the sides of said whalebone tip for a distance beyond said splice and serving to re-enforce the latter, a

stocking or sidings of rattan surrounding the a core, and a plaited covering over the sidings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY MULLEN. Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, H. A. CHAPIN. 

